Donnelly engineered an original and innovative pattern of bent steel panels that not only offer shelter, but sound off  when hit by rain drops. This summer he quietly made changes to the wind panels. He replaced them with cut tree trunks from large fallen trees to reintroduce a natural character to the hardscape of a city street.

"Timbers have a strong but forgotten presence in public projects, because wood has been substituted for steel,” Donnelly said. “Wood speaks to the soul. The trade craft of mill work communicates to people through the hands of and value of skill and labor.”

Donnelly, the original architect of the project in 2001, said that updating the shelter with its compact size and highly visible public corner had become an obsessive effort out of his concern that  “monocultural designs have become unquestioningly common in public places.” Instead, Donnelly said he prefers to use a mix of hand-made and industrial made objects and using a variety of processes that offer a traditional perspective of ‘shelter’ within a comtemporary context.